The Monitor's View:
“A survey released last week by the Pew Hispanic Center found more than four in 10 Mexicans are willing to leave their country to live in the US. One in five would risk a dangerous, illegal border crossing. Most surprising, one in three college graduates wants to flee. Before Washington takes up immigration reform this fall, it needs to take a hard look at Mexico's disillusionment.” ---- Christian Science Monitor

OBAMA HAS DONE NOTHING FOR SMALL
AND MEDIUM SIZED BUSINESSES, UNLESS THEY ARE ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS OF “CHEAP” LABOR
ILLEGALS! FOR THESE “AMERICANS” OBAMA HAS SABOTAGED E-VERIFY TO ASSURE HIS
PARTY BASEOF LA RAZA SUPREMACIST THAT
ILLEGALS GET OUR JOBS!

OBAMA KNOWS THAT WALL ST DOES NOT
WANT TO DO BATTLE WITH FIFTY STATES TO CONTINUE THEIR RAPE, LOOTING AND PILLAGE
OF THIS NATION WHEN IT WOULD BE SIMPLY EASIER TO CONTINUE TO USE THE OBAMA
WHITE HOUSE AS HEADQUARTERS FOR THE ECONOMIC RAPE!

WHILE BANKSTERS’ PROFITS AND
BONUSES HAVE SOARED UNDER OBAMA, SO HAVE FORECLOSURES, UNEMPLOYMENT AND
ILLEGALS OVER OUR BORDERS!

THERE IS A REASON WHY OBAMA BROUGHT
IN BILL DALEY AS HIS FORMER CHIEF-OF-STAFF. DALEY WAS CONNECTED TO OBAMA’S
BIGGEST CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS, AND LIKE OBAMA, AN ADVOCATE FOR OPEN BORDERS
TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED!

THERE IS A REASON WHY OBAMA’S SEC.
of (illegal) LABOR IS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HILDA SOLIS, WHO OPENLY WORKS TO PUT
ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS….

OBAMA IS THE BIGGEST CON JOB THIS
NATION HAS HOUSED IN THE WHITE HOUSE SINCE SAINT RONNIE REAGAN, ALSO OWNED BY
WALL ST!

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“Presenting his American Jobs
Act legislation last September, Obama was quick to stress that every penny of
the plan would be paid for through cuts in social programs. The White House
knew in advance that the program would not be passed by Congress, but announced
it in an attempt, in advance of the 2012 elections, to conceal the resolutely
pro-corporate policies of the administration beneath utterly cynical and
phony populist trappings.”

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Obama seeks power to merge agencies,
slash jobs

By Kate Randall
16 January 2012

President
Obama on Friday called on Congress to grant him authority to merge federal
agencies and consolidate their roles. Speaking before an audience of small
business owners, he said his initial proposal would save $3 billion and
eliminate 1,000-2,000 government jobs over the next decade.

Obama
is asking for authority to present the merger of agencies to Congress, which
would then be required to approve or reject each proposal with an up-or-down
vote within 90 days. US presidents retained such authority for 52 years, from
the Great Depression until 1984, during the Reagan administration, when
Congress withdrew the authority under a sunset provision.

The
president said he would authorize reorganizations and mergers only if they cut
costs and shrank the size of the federal government. Assuring his audience that
his proposal was business friendly and aimed at boosting profits, he said,
“These changes would help small business owners like you. It would also help
medium and large businesses.”

Administration
officials said that if granted the authority, Obama would first establish a new
department overseeing trade and investment, business and economic development,
technology and innovation, and economic statistics. Obama said the revamped
agency would “help create more jobs, sell more products overseas, grow our
economy faster, improve our quality of life.”

This
new department would combine the functions of the Commerce Department, the
Small Business Administration, the Office of the US Trade Representative
(USTR), the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the Export-Import Bank and
the Trade and Development Agency. Also included would be the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The
new department would be led by a cabinet secretary but the USTR would retain
its own cabinet status. Obama also said he will exercise his current executive
authority to elevate the head of the Small Business Administration to a
cabinet-level position.

The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which now comprises the
largest part of Commerce’s budget, would be moved to the Interior Department.
Many environmental advocates oppose this shift on the grounds that it would
subordinate NOAA, an agency charged with protecting the condition of the oceans
and the atmosphere, into a department dominated by the corporate drive to
extract minerals on federal land.

NOAA
also helps manage ocean fishing seasons. Environmentalists are concerned that
as part of the Interior Department, NOAA’s independence would be curtailed in
its handing of key ocean policies—from ocean energy projects to offshore
drilling.

In
a written statement, Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources
Defense Council, said, “We understand the president’s interest in creating a
more nimble, coherent entity for economic policy. But that can be done without
sacrificing the scientific and environmental strengths of NOAA, and the
independent perspectives it brings to critical issues.”

Obama’s
proposal has been met with guarded approval by congressional Republicans and
business leaders. Brendan Buck, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner,
Republican of Ohio, stated, “Eliminating duplicative programs and making the
federal government more simple, streamlined and business friendly is always an
idea worth exploring.”

While
Obama’s proposal takes a page from the “smaller government” rhetoric of the
Republicans, members of Congress and some business groups have expressed
concern that their advocates in independent agencies would lose clout under the
reorganized department dealing with commerce and trade. In particular, some
question merging USTR, responsible for developing US international trade and
direct investment policy, into the larger agency.

In
a joint written statement, House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (Republican
of Michigan) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (Democrat of
Montana), said, “Taking USTR, one of the most efficient agencies that is a
model of how government can and should work, and making it just another corner
of a new bureaucratic behemoth would hurt American exports and hinder American
job-creation.”

Obama
first pledged to cut government inefficiency in his 2011 State of the Union
address, and the topic is expected to feature prominently in the upcoming
address to Congress on January 24. Despite his posturing as an advocate of the
“middle class” and job-creation, Obama is seeking to outflank his Republican
rivals in his commitment to slashing government spending.

Presenting his American Jobs
Act legislation last September, Obama was quick to stress that every penny of
the plan would be paid for through cuts in social programs. The White House
knew in advance that the program would not be passed by Congress, but announced
it in an attempt, in advance of the 2012 elections, to conceal the resolutely
pro-corporate policies of the administration beneath utterly cynical and phony
populist trappings.
Even were the plan enacted, it would produce, according to the White House’s
estimates, a mere 2 million new jobs. This is under conditions where, by the
government’s own figures, some 23 million Americans are either jobless,
unwillingly working part-time, or have given up looking for work.

Obama
has rejected out of hand any government-run public works program to actually
hire workers to rebuild the country’s crumbling social and physical
infrastructure. He insists that the
largely token sums allocated in the name of job-creation be funneled to the
private sector to boost corporate profits. Now he is calling for new powers
to intensify the attack on federal workers, whose pay has already been frozen
by the White House.

Obama’s
proposal to merge and reorganize government departments has come under fire
from some members of Congress and business groups because it aims initially to
cut only 1,000 to 2,000 from the 2.1 million federal workforce, and because
these job cuts would be achieved mainly through attrition.

In an editorial published
Saturday, the Wall Street Journal urged Obama to also take the knife to
federal job-training programs, writing, “Another priority ought to be reforming
the 47 separate job retraining programs, all but three of which overlap. The
Government Accountability Office calls this wasteful with ‘no measurable
benefit,’ but the White House has rebuffed any meaningful change.”

Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies

by Michelle Malkin

Editorial Reviews

In her shocking new book, Malkin digs deep into the records of President Obama's staff, revealing corrupt dealings, questionable pasts, and abuses of power throughout his administration.

From the Inside Flap

The era of hope and change is dead....and it only took six months in office to kill it.

Never has an administration taken office with more inflated expectations of turning Washington around. Never have a media-anointed American Idol and his entourage fallen so fast and hard. In her latest investigative tour de force, New York Times bestselling author Michelle Malkin delivers a powerful, damning, and comprehensive indictment of the culture of corruption that surrounds Team Obama's brazen tax evaders, Wall Street cronies, petty crooks, slum lords, and business-as-usual influence peddlers. In Culture of Corruption, Malkin reveals:

* Why nepotism beneficiaries First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are Team Obama's biggest liberal hypocrites--bashing the corporate world and influence-peddling industries from which they and their relatives have benefited mightily

* What secrets the ethics-deficient members of Obama's cabinet--including Hillary Clinton--are trying to hide

* Why the Obama White House has more power-hungry, unaccountable "czars" than any other administration

* How Team Obama's first one hundred days of appointments became a litany of embarrassments as would-be appointee after would-be appointee was exposed as a tax cheat or had to withdraw for other reasons

* How Obama's old ACORN and union cronies have squandered millions of taxpayer dollars and dues money to enrich themselves and expand their power

* How Obama's Wall Street money men and corporate lobbyists are ruining the economy and helping their friends In Culture of Corruption, Michelle Malkin lays bare the Obama administration's seamy underside that the liberal media would rather keep hidden.